Abstract

Fujita won the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy for his life work on low temperature stars and authored the book "Interpretation of Spectra and Atmospheric Structure in Cool Stars". He was elected a member of the Japan Academy in 1965.

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  • Fujita was born 1908 in Fukui Prefecture in a small town named Mikuni

  • He was trying to determine if Eros has a residual atmosphere and might be an exhausted comet nucleus. With his PhD in hand he became an assistant to Hagihara at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, no longer financially dependent on his family. He especially recalls this as a watershed, but even more valuable because he became exposed to other assistants who had physics backgrounds

  • One of his first projects and publications was on improvements to a high dispersion prism spectrograph for the Tokyo Tower Telescope, reminiscent of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam

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Introduction

Fujita was born 1908 in Fukui Prefecture in a small town named Mikuni. His father worked at a local newspaper as a writer/editor and was proficient in the Japanese poetry style of Waka. The eldest of five children, young Fujita became fascinated by the night sky as a child and carried this fascination through school, where he excelled and was admitted to the University of Tokyo, concentrating in mathematics and astronomy. During the years 1930–1931, under the guidance of Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Fujita carried out an observational study of the spectrum of Eros at its close approach, using a small astrograph equipped with an objective prism.

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